This is an analysis of the poem Self-Sabotaging that begins with:
A self-sabotaging committed,
Has to be witnessed in its effect, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa bcXbd abdcX Xbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010010 100100001 0001 111101011 00101 11001111 011110 111010 01001010 011101 10101 01010010 0111110 11001 010010 1111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of Self-Sabotaging;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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